Whether you are using VMware for your virtualization or Microsoft’s Hyper-V,
the SnapServer SAN S2000 has been thoughtfully optimized to integrate tightly
with virtualization platforms. With integrated software for managing the
SnapServer SAN’s targets directly from within the native virtualization
environments, administrators no longer have to utilize multiple tools for
managing their virtual server storage.

Fully Integrated SnapServer SAN WizardsCreating storage for your virtualization environment may be
complicated today. With the SnapServer SAN’s integrated management interfaces
and the Wizards that are there to guide you through every aspect of creating and
managing your storage, you’re no longer burdened with the complexities of
creating your virtual machine storage or managing your mirroring or replication
tasks.

Microsoft Specific Features

• "Single-Click" Volume Creation – Create the target; Connect the iSCSI
Initiator and Create the Windows Volume… all in one click of the mouse.
Compare that to doing each step manually (Figure 1)

• Automated Capacity Expansion – No more worries about running out of
capacity or having to "guess" at how much capacity you "may" need in the
future. Simply set the policy for automatically extending your Windows
Volume and our intelligent expansion feature handles all those tricky
diskpart commands for you (Figure 2)

• Full management interface for the entire SnapServer SAN environment
with full support for Microsoft MPIO VDS and VSS.

• Supports access for guest VM’s to iSCSI targets
directly without having to expose to

Hyper-V host

• Active-Active Failover supported for clustered Hyper-V Servers

VMware Specific Features

• SnapServer SAN VMware vSphere Plugin – The SnapServer SAN vSphere
Plugin creates a new tab within vCenter allowing administrators to manage
their ESX environment natively from within their VMware vCenter Server. (Figure
3)

• Ability to effortlessly integrate the SnapServer SAN with VMware
storage configuration within the native vSphere manager (Figure 4)

• Active-Active Failover for ESX Datastores

• Enables single interface configuration for S2000 targets, VMware
Datastores and VMware High Availability options such as DRS, HA, VMotion,
and Fault Tolerance